With the wind swinging round and now coming from deep south there’s a chance of another pulse of migrants to arrive. Highlighted yesterday with a Turtle Dove in a Studland garden yesterday, a real Poole Harbour rarity these days. An Osprey was seen heading NW over Upton Heath today and was likely to be a migrant rather than CJ7 and a Spoonbill was at Lytchett Fields this morning. At Brands Bay there were still 4 Brent Geese and 11 Sanderling were on the beach. Good numbers of Swift were again over Swineham GP and up on Hartland 4 Wheatear were near Scotland Farm. A Lesser Whitethroat was along the Middlebere track and 2 Cuckoo were on Slepe Heath. A Nightjar was churring on Brownsea this evening…..we just need the balmy summer evenings now and summer would have properly arrived.

Swallow and Swift – Swineham – Peter Moore